Always on the lookout for local quiz stuff, I climbed Arthur’s Seat last week to see if I could answer the question:

Question: Can you see both Forth Bridges from the Top of Arthur’s Seat?

Dr Paul researching quiz questions up Arthur's Seat

The answer is: yes you can, in fact you don’t have to go that far, you can see them both from even from the top of Sailsbury Crags. But anyway – its a nice little local geography question.

Meanwhle, I’ve had a harder time establishing the origin of Arthur. Whose seat is it anyway? Who is Arthur? The Wikipedia page isn’t too helpful, saying it might be to do with King Arthur and providing an incomplete (as I write) reference about the name being a corruption of Archer’s Seat.

Half-man Half-Legend, Begnt From Sweden has made a mockery of every challenger and tie breaker that the Reverie quiz has thrown in front of him for months now but it could be that we have finally discovered the Scandinavian superman’s weak spot.

A 38-point draw between BENGT – MADE FROM GIRDERS and OOH SHINY LIGHTS brought up a tie-breaker and therefore seemed destined to be sending quiz victory the Swede’s way but step forward Brendan from OOH SHINY LIGHTS, call it a walk-off, and suddenly Begnt looked like a very ordinary contender indeed.

Brendan’s more sultry use of pace and his impeccable jacket-shoulder-sling won the day and now the world has a new hero (until Bengt recovers his super powers by a whole week of eating IKEA hotdogs and singing Swedish songs.)

Anyway – Brendan earned his team the wine and put himself into key position by correctly identifying the mystery vegeatble as an ONION, but was unable to follow through when faced with this jackpot question for £20:

Question: Which of these UK sitcoms had the most episodes made?

A – Blackadder

B – Dad’s Army

C – Only Fools And Horses

D – Red Dwarf

Brendan answered incorrectly and so we have a rollover of £40 for next Monday night. Would you have got it right?

Researching a jackpot question for next month about the origin of various drinks (Vimto, Bovril, Irn Bru, etc) led me to this amazing Bovril advert from the early 20th Century.

Before USA v USSR there was Bovril and The Pope

Intersting. I’m no expert but it looks like The Pope is drinking a two litre flagon of the brown-and-beefy stuff and has just won a game of chess against The Devil (off-camera) by plonking down a massive 50-litre rook with a Bovril prefect’s badge.

Partially becuase of his quiz success and partially because some challengers couldn’t keep the same team name going for the whole month, January’s league winner is Stuart who usually graces the quiz at Jenny Ha’s

Stuart wins a million pounds in Scratchcards and becomes enormously rich this coming Monday. if he’s in.

I haven’t spoken to him yet but I suspect he’ll spend the million on some new moon boots.

The team name QUIZ TEAM AGUILERA is the NORFOLK AND CHANCE of the 21st century and is now woefully old and hackneyed. Please do not use it.

A much better celebrity pub quiz team name turned up on Monday at Reverie when we were joined by QUIZTOPHER BIGWINS (as in Safari – So Goody)

This team was obviosuly manned (or ladied, in fact) with original and talented thinkers because whereas a bog-standard Quiz Team Aguilera had turned up and unsurprisingly finished about tenth, Quiztopher Bigwins absolutely SLAUGHTERED the opposition and finished a record 11-points clear at the end of the quiz.

Man, they were like a steamroller.

Unluckily for them it was only good enough for the wine as Anna missed out on the new mystery vegetable challenge and this gave NOT KNOWN (Neil and Andy) the chance to steam in and grab the cash on the following question on Great Scots. Would you have answered it correctly for £20?

Q. In 2009, STV ran a poll to find the Greatest Scot of all time. Robert Burns topped the list but who came second?